Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It also implies that the over-ridden rocks may not have been subjected to the excessive burial or the degree of disturbance once assumed .
2 If the Caucasus had been easier to control or the Khan of Khiva less suspicious , the western shore of the Caspian might have become the embarkation point for central Asia .
3 The absence of macroscopic oesophagitis or the presence of erythema only .
4 These marvellous towers may a little represent the pride of the landlord-citizens or the arrogance of families recently enriched ; but they certainly reflect the aspirations of many of the lesser cities in their heyday — and many of the greater too ; what is peculiar to San Gimignano is that a group of towers survive .
5 Nevertheless , absence from an examination or the non-completion of coursework often results in the award of a fail grade .
6 He wants to grasp the nature or the practice of ideology scientifically and characterizes ‘ ideology ’ as whole , unified by its problematic and dependent on the social situation in which it occurs .
7 Now then all we 're doing , what we should have done is that we should have had an opening balance at the beginni or the end of December when the di information was first struck .
8 It was what anyone would say , anyone used to politics or business or the world of affairs generally .
9 Living amongst the Indonesians , where the pursuit of wisdom virtually amounts to a national pastime , the elements of Earth , Air , Fire , Water and Ether became real for me in a way they had never been in the writings of the Gnostics or the Pythagoreans .
10 For an investor in bookish securities , the greatest potential rewards remain concentrated in my view in publishing , where the element of magic still applies .
11 The BMWs slowly roll down the impressive new production line where the team of mechanics eagerly await their arrival — so they can carefully take the cars to pieces .
12 In order to construct an arbitrage transaction where the number of futures exactly offsets the basket of shares in the index , it is necessary to be able to hold shares or futures in fractional quantities , which is not possible .
13 Having borrowed the document , Aitken 's account of his later behaviour was clear-cut and uncontroversial except on a money question where the weight of evidence strongly supported his contentions .
14 In the same year Sir Thomas Roe went as English representative in turn to The Hague , Copenhagen and Königsberg ( where the Elector of Brandenburg then was ) before also helping with the Swedish–Polish negotiations .
15 They might work in the graduate school of a good American university , where a variety of methods already abounds .
16 There is a suggestion that banknote paper was made here once , and there is also evidence of a button factory where a row of cottages now stands .
17 The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised .
18 I think , one of the most important things is finding a trusting friend or a member of family so that you can then try express some of the feelings so that you 're in a better position erm , to try and explain the problem .
19 The need for more staff time to organize training , or a member of staff specifically employed to organize/co-ordinate training , was mentioned by over a quarter of all authorities ( see Table 25 ) :
20 You could n't get a cup of tea or a cup of coffee anywhere .
21 If I were a head teacher or a chair of governors now , I would use quite blatantly the annual meeting and the annual report as ways of sounding the loudest and brightest clarion calls about my school 's performance and achievements …
22 These cheese buns have a rich filling and a crisp crust , which are just right with a cup of coffee at breakfast or a glass of wine later in the day .
23 There are many more , and to them have to be added the spores of fungal diseases , always produced in countless millions and ever-present , carried on the wind , ready to take advantage of easily-penetrated soft flabby tissue , a wound or a point of entry perhaps left open by insect damage , to invade , debilitate , deface and even destroy an entire plant .
24 And waits for this one from Tufnell , pushes forward , and it 's hit on his pad outside the off stump possibly , loud appeals from everybody , there 's a rather high-pitched vocals , I think we 've got some young people in or a lot of ladies today .
25 Even where the credit market is fully competitive and suffers no distortions , it may be judged that the price of credit so resulting is excessive and socially unacceptable .
26 The Guardian disclosed in July that the Ministry of Agriculture secretly agreed to an investigation as soon as the US findings were known .
27 It is just as unbelievable that the Ministry of Defence apparently does not know what happened to them afterwards , what careers they followed .
28 But the facts strongly suggest that the current of liberation really began to flow in 1953 , the year not only of the Kinsey Report but of two significant debuts : those of James Bond and Playboy .
29 This is not to say that the range of powers thus exercised need be comprehensive .
30 They could also describe children being sent individually or in small groups , to forage for information on particular topics , and in the case of the school which monitored library use , the school could demonstrate that the range of subjects thus represented was considerable .
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